Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-04-15

rubbish OF carpenter and mason,s work. The
door was off. The plumbers had torn up the
floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola.
All the pictures were gone, and the paper
hangers were doing their work All the mod
ern improvements were being introduced
into that dwelling. There was not room in
the house fit to live in at that time, although
month before when / visited that house ev-
erything was SO beautiful I could not have
suggested an improvement. My friend had
gone with his family to the Holy Land, ex-
pecting to come back at the end of six
months, when the building was to be DONE
And oh, what was mis- joy when at the end of
six months, he returned and the old house
was enlarged and improved and glorifed
That is your body. 1t looks well now-all the
rooms filled with health, and we could hardly
make a suggestion. But after while your
soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you
are gone the old house of your tabernacle will
be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic,
and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue
and artery must be hauled over, and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned and
raised and cupolaed and enlarged and all
the improvements of heaven introduced and
you will move into it on resurrection day.
'For we know that if our earthly house of
building of God a house notmade with hands,
eternal in the heavens Oh, what day when
body and soul meet againl They are very
fond of each other. Did your body ever have
pain and your soul not pity ita or your body
have a joy and your soul not re-eeho it? or,
changing the question, did your soul ever
have any trouble and your body not sympa-
thize with its growing wan and weak under
the depressing influence. Or did your soul
ever have a gladness but your body celebrated
it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic
steps Surely, God never intended two such
good friends to be very long separated. And
so when the worlds last Easter morning shall
come the soul will descend, crying, here is
my body?' and the body will ascend, saying,
s'Where is my soulF' And the Lord of the
resurrection will bring them together, and it
will, be a perfect soul in perfect body, intro
duced by perfect Christ into perfect
heaven. Victory! Do you wonder that to-day
we swathe this house with garlandss Do you
wonder we celebrate it with the most conse-
Grated voice of song that we can invite, and
with tho deftest fingers on organ and cor
net, and with doxologies that beat these
arches with the pillows Of sound as the sea
smites the basalt at Giants Causewaya Only
the bad disapprove of the resurrection.
the missionary, preach about the resurrec-
tion and he said to the missionary: "Will my
father rise in the last day?" eyes, said the
missionary. "Wil all the dead in battle
rise?" said the cruel chieftain. eyes" said
the missionary. "Then," said the warrior,
"let me hear no more about the resurrection
day. There can be no resurrection, there
shall be no resurrection have slain thou
sands in BATTLE Will they riser All there
will be more to rise on that day thar those
want to see whose crimes have never bsess 70
pented Of But for all others who allowed
Christ to be their pardon and their life and
their resurrection it will be day of victory.
The thunders of the last day will be the salvo
that greets you into harbor. The Hghtnings
will be only the torches of triumphal process
ion marching down to escort you home. The
burning worlds flashing through immensely
will be the rockets, celebrating your corona
ton on thrones where you will reign forever
and forever and forever. Where is deaths
What have we to do with death? As your
reunited body and soul swing off from this
planet on that last day you will see deep
gashes all up and down the hills, deep gashes
all through the valleys, and they will be the
emptied graves, they will be the abandoned
sepulchers, with rough ground tossed ON
either side of them, and slabs will lie uneven
on the rent hillocks, and there will be fallen
monuments and cenotaphs, and then for the
first time you will appreciate the full exhil-
aration of the text, "He will swallow up
death in victory"
Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to thee by both be given;
Thee we greet triumphant now
Hail the resurrection, thoui